BILL NUMBER: ACR 30	CHAPTERED  05/03/99

	RESOLUTION CHAPTER   20
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   MAY 3, 1999
	ADOPTED IN SENATE   APRIL 29, 1999
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 15, 1999
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   APRIL 15, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gallegos
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Aanestad, Ackerman, Alquist, Aroner,
Ashburn, Baldwin, Bates, Battin, Baugh, Briggs, Calderon, Campbell,
Cardenas, Cardoza, Cedillo, Corbett, Correa, Cox, Cunneen, Davis,
Dickerson, Ducheny, Dutra, Firebaugh, Florez, Frusetta, Granlund,
Havice, Hertzberg, Honda, House, Jackson, Kaloogian, Keeley, Knox,
Kuehl, Leach, Lempert, Leonard, Longville, Lowenthal, Machado,
Maddox, Maldonado, Margett, Mazzoni, McClintock, Migden, Nakano,
Olberg, Oller, Robert Pacheco, Rod Pacheco, Papan, Pescetti, Reyes,
Romero, Runner, Scott, Shelley, Soto, Steinberg, Strickland,
Strom-Martin, Thomson, Torlakson, Villaraigosa, Vincent, Wayne,
Wesson, Wiggins, Wildman, Wright, and Zettel)

                        MARCH 22, 1999

   Assembly Concurrent Resolution No. 30--Relative to Child Passenger
Safety Week.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 30, Gallegos.  Child Passenger Safety Week.
   This measure would declare the week of April 26 to May 2, 1999, to
be Child Passenger Safety Week.




   WHEREAS, The number one, preventable cause of death and injury of
children and young adults is the automobile collision; and
   WHEREAS, Approximately 200 children under the age of 16 years are
killed, and over 28,000 children in this age group are injured, in
automobile collisions each year in California; and
   WHEREAS, Up to 71 percent of the children killed would be alive
today if they had been properly restrained in crash-tested car safety
seats or safety belts; and
   WHEREAS, Infants and young children are not capable of initiating
action to use proper restraints and are not protected adequately by
automatic belts or air bags; and
   WHEREAS, Only about 60 percent of children in this age group are
protected by proper restraint use; and
   WHEREAS, Crash-tested safety seats are moderately priced and
widely available for purchase at retail stores and for rent or at low
cost from car safety seat loan programs throughout California; and
   WHEREAS, The State of California has required children, until they
are both four years of age and 40 pounds or more, to be restrained
in child safety seats and all other motor vehicle occupants to use
safety belts; and
   WHEREAS, The goal of SafetyBeltSafe U.S.A. is to further the right
of every child to protection from injury or death while being
transported in a motor vehicle; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the week of April 26 to May 2, 1999, is
hereby declared to be Child Passenger Safety Week.
